Issue 10, pp. 753-832, October 1861, SMSJ

———830 Miscellaneous. [October,The more urgent the case, the more tolerant docs the system become ofthe arsenic. The author, regarding apoplexy as consisting essentially inan extensive increase of globules of the blood, employs arsenic as a powerfulagent for decreasing these, as well as the plasticity of the blood,It becomes, of course, necessary to assure oneself in a given case of therichness of the blood, for to employ arsenic when the blood is impoverished,would be to do mischief. The author has generally found thedose of one-fifteenth to one-sixth of a grain per diem sufficient. Bull,dc Tlteroj)., tome lvii. pp. 193-252. Ibid.On the Efficacy of Digitalis and Quinia in the Treatment ofHemicrania.—Dr. Debout, who has very severely suffered for manyyears from attacks of hemicrania, testifies to the efficacy of the combineduse of sulphate of quinia and powder of digitalis in the treatment of thiscomplaint. The proportions employed are three grammes (about threefourthsof a drachm) of sulphate of quinia, and one and a half grammeof powdered digitalis, made into thirty pills, of which one is to be takenevery night at bedtime for at least three months. From the beneficialeffects produced on himself, Dr. Debout prescribed the same treatmentfor several patients, and the results in many cases were equally satisfactory.Chemical Gazette. Ibid.Treatment of Old Fissures of the Anus.—M. Gosselin observesthat most of these fissures may be easily cured, whatever be the meansadopted. Still he regards forced dilatation as the most expeditious andthe most convenient for the patient, while incision best guards againstrelapse. In many cases he has combined with advantage these twomodes. First dilating, and then incising the fissure, which is theneasily visible throughout its whole extent. He has observed the fissureand its pains persisting after forced dilatation oftcner in women than inmen. But besides these fissures thus easily cured, there are otherswhich resist various modes of treatment successively employed, or, whencured, are succeeded by new ones, just as painful as the others. After,in such cases, trying the various means one after another, M. Gosselinresorts to daily dilatation, which he has found attended with good results.The index-finger is passed into the anus daily until the pains after defecationhave disappeared or notably diminished Gaz. dcs. Ho]).,No. 91. IbidHoney and Glycerine in Surgery.—Dr. C. F. Moore, MedicalSuperintendent of Middleton Hospital and Infirmary, says (Dub. Med.Press, Dec. 2G, 1860) that several mouths ago he commenced the use ofglycerine to bedsores in bad fever cases, and finding it to excel his expectations,he used it in all cases where a healing dressing was required.It occurred to him, some three or four months since, that honey might